As an Android developer I can tell you that switching versions on a device is not provided by root access. Root gives you access to all of the system while the phone is running. Getting a different version running requires an unlocked bootloader. For example, on my Nexus devices I first do a "fastboot oem unlock" to unlock the bootloader, then I can use fastboot to send any version of the OS I want to the device. It gets tricky on more locked down devices, but the same basic idea still applies. You need to get past the bootloader to get a different OS running.
How many boxes do you want to go through before you get to the solution? Sure, he could write it as a shader, but that hardly requires pulling in something like Unity or XNA to build the project.
This. OpenCL is C based so it shouldn't be that hard to pick up. The efficient algorithms will be basically the same no matter what language or bindings you use.
The big issue with games on Android vs iOS is that Apple typically have very powerful hardware while Android devices for the most part don't. Then you have different GPU architectures, so what runs well on lets say a Adreno chip won't necessarily work on a Tegra one and vice versa. It really isn't all that different from what PC development is like if you are actually supporting Laptops & Desktops with varying chips and capabilities. I think you hear a lot of complaints from game developers because they are using prebuilt engines and those aren't always easily patched. They are great to put content together quickly but you are pretty helpless if you run into some technical issue. For example, I've seen issues with Unity and z-buffer fighting on some of my Android devices while my own custom built scene-graph renders content without issue. Inheriting other people's bugs sucks but I don't think it has anything to do specifically with the Android platform.
It sure is. He says that it supposedly isn't and is basically stock Android, but after quickly looking at a review of the device it is running some form of Motoblur. It might not be as bad as other Motorola devices were but it is definitely not stock.
The CIA is not associated with the NSA. The CIA is an independent organization while the NSA is part of the Department of Defense. So no, Amazon did not bite the hand that feeds it. If anything, based on how the various government bureaucracies view each other, the CIA loves Amazon even more.
I get why everybody is stocking up on tinfoil right now but based on what the NSA can supposedly do, hosting stuff internally isn't going to keep it away from them. After all, Microsoft is handing over all of the zero-day exploits and they are free to peruse the source to the Linux and BSD kernels.
Without developers maintaining editors/viewers, open formats are only slightly more usable than proprietary ones. 100 years is a really long time from now as far as technology goes. I wouldn't be so quick to say that open formats will still be easily accessible.
This project barely has anything to do with electronics. They had a box with a small display attached. They stuffed the raspberry pi and cables into the box. I get trying to promote things that are accessible for the less experience, but what in the article would actually help a newbie learn? It is a useless piece of fluff split over a few pages and is only there to garner page views.
It is only pointless if you are the one investing in and running CPUs and GPUs to do the mining. He isn't. Instead he is costing the users more than he is going to receive, but that is still more than nothing.
There are a lot of indies developing for the 3DS. Bob was an idiot for thinking that working on hacked systems for a few years would somehow get past Nintendo. They have even started to loosen some of the restrictions, such as office security.
Ghosting is often used to described the blur caused by pixels slowly transitioning from one state to the next. What is happening here is more along the lines of "image retention" than ghosting. A static charge can "preserve" the state of the pixels in some of the cheaper IPS panels. It isn't permanent like burn in but it is annoying and a much slower transition than the typical ghosting. It is funny that it has taken this long for the issue to gain attention. I'd seen the very same issues with their cinema displays a few years ago. Never understood how artists could swear by Apple if the colors don't transition correctly.
Typically the supplies dry up pretty quick during a launch. By selling in the spring, they can go through that initial shortage while they ramp up production and then not miss out on sales during the holiday season.
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As an Android developer I can tell you that switching versions on a device is not provided by root access. Root gives you access to all of the system while the phone is running. Getting a different version running requires an unlocked bootloader. For example, on my Nexus devices I first do a "fastboot oem unlock" to unlock the bootloader, then I can use fastboot to send any version of the OS I want to the device. It gets tricky on more locked down devices, but the same basic idea still applies. You need to get past the bootloader to get a different OS running.
I think it makes it easier to back, since indiegogo uses paypal over amazon payments.
It could still be very useful for compositing 3D effects or actors into another scene. I think that is the use case that they are targeting here.
even after Randi came on and did the same psychic tricks.
Obviously Randi is psychic, too. He probably uses his psychic abilities to prevent others from being able to use theirs.
How many boxes do you want to go through before you get to the solution? Sure, he could write it as a shader, but that hardly requires pulling in something like Unity or XNA to build the project.
Learn OpenCL and do the job properly.
This. OpenCL is C based so it shouldn't be that hard to pick up. The efficient algorithms will be basically the same no matter what language or bindings you use.
Those are game engines. They will do nothing to help him use the GPGPU capabilities of his graphics card.
As for power, what they hell do they need a quad-core i5 that they can't do with an ARM processor?
Minecraft.
The big issue with games on Android vs iOS is that Apple typically have very powerful hardware while Android devices for the most part don't. Then you have different GPU architectures, so what runs well on lets say a Adreno chip won't necessarily work on a Tegra one and vice versa. It really isn't all that different from what PC development is like if you are actually supporting Laptops & Desktops with varying chips and capabilities. I think you hear a lot of complaints from game developers because they are using prebuilt engines and those aren't always easily patched. They are great to put content together quickly but you are pretty helpless if you run into some technical issue. For example, I've seen issues with Unity and z-buffer fighting on some of my Android devices while my own custom built scene-graph renders content without issue. Inheriting other people's bugs sucks but I don't think it has anything to do specifically with the Android platform.
It sure is. He says that it supposedly isn't and is basically stock Android, but after quickly looking at a review of the device it is running some form of Motoblur. It might not be as bad as other Motorola devices were but it is definitely not stock.
The CIA is not associated with the NSA. The CIA is an independent organization while the NSA is part of the Department of Defense. So no, Amazon did not bite the hand that feeds it. If anything, based on how the various government bureaucracies view each other, the CIA loves Amazon even more.
I get why everybody is stocking up on tinfoil right now but based on what the NSA can supposedly do, hosting stuff internally isn't going to keep it away from them. After all, Microsoft is handing over all of the zero-day exploits and they are free to peruse the source to the Linux and BSD kernels.
Without developers maintaining editors/viewers, open formats are only slightly more usable than proprietary ones. 100 years is a really long time from now as far as technology goes. I wouldn't be so quick to say that open formats will still be easily accessible.
This project barely has anything to do with electronics. They had a box with a small display attached. They stuffed the raspberry pi and cables into the box. I get trying to promote things that are accessible for the less experience, but what in the article would actually help a newbie learn? It is a useless piece of fluff split over a few pages and is only there to garner page views.
They allow centers for guitars, why not allow them for data?
Sure, in the future it may lead to cheaper weapons for criminals, but conversely, it will also lead to cheaper weapons for the oppressed.
Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!
He is an American.
And they did that without DRM!
Uh-oh. It looks like he also reads slashdot!
It is only pointless if you are the one investing in and running CPUs and GPUs to do the mining. He isn't. Instead he is costing the users more than he is going to receive, but that is still more than nothing.
How was Windows outselling Apple before Windows existed?
Or the editors could, uh, edit.
There are a lot of indies developing for the 3DS. Bob was an idiot for thinking that working on hacked systems for a few years would somehow get past Nintendo. They have even started to loosen some of the restrictions, such as office security.
Ghosting is often used to described the blur caused by pixels slowly transitioning from one state to the next. What is happening here is more along the lines of "image retention" than ghosting. A static charge can "preserve" the state of the pixels in some of the cheaper IPS panels. It isn't permanent like burn in but it is annoying and a much slower transition than the typical ghosting. It is funny that it has taken this long for the issue to gain attention. I'd seen the very same issues with their cinema displays a few years ago. Never understood how artists could swear by Apple if the colors don't transition correctly.
Typically the supplies dry up pretty quick during a launch. By selling in the spring, they can go through that initial shortage while they ramp up production and then not miss out on sales during the holiday season.